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The Bilge Blight (Part 1.1): Sri Lanka in Focus

By Kavinda Ratnapala. Focusing on bilge dumping incidents in Sri Lankan waters, this essay takes a brief detour from the planned course of commentaries relating...

The Bilge Blight: Shadowy Practices on the High Seas (Part 1)

By Kavinda Ratnapala. This is Part 1 of a multi-part suite of articles which cover the illegal practice of bilge dumping, its impact, the regulatory...

Understanding the Hydrogen Powered Economy and its sticking points.

By Kavinda Ratnapala The promise of hydrogen in discussions of industrial transport is not new. Going beyond a mere promise, its first use can be...

Hydrogen On The High Seas: The Great Hope For Net-Zero Emissions

ByKavinda Ratnapala Note to the reader* This article is a supplementary essay which is to be read in tandem with a previous article on alternative green...

The Premises of Marine Propulsion: Reframing the challenge to realise net-zero GHG emissions

By Kavinda Ratnapala The global shipping industry has problems, too many to count. They range from the lack of containers in the key shipping routes...

A Roadblock or Stopgap: The Functional Impact of Alternative Green Fuels Used by The Global Shipping Industry.

By Kavinda Ratnapala In 2018 the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) greenhouse gas strategy was released and made specific reference to realising “a pathway of CO2 emissions...

The decision that set the tone for the Modern Commonwealth

By Kavinda Ratnapala Today the commonwealth as it is known comprises of 54 countries and has come to fundamentally influence how the world speaks about...

The Wheat Run: The Indian Response

By Kavinda Ratnapala This week saw commodity prices cool off from their recent surge, with the invasion of Ukraine, also known as Europe’s breadbasket. Commodities...